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Medical practitioner—Disciplinary proceedings—General Medical Council

17 May 2013
Issue: 7560 / Categories: Case law , Law reports , In Court
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Y v General Medical Council [2013] EWHC 860 (Admin), [2013] All ER (D) 236 (Apr)
 

Queen’s Bench Division, Administrative Court, Judge Gilbart QC Honorary Recorder of Manchester (Sitting as Deputy High Court Judge), 15 Apr 2013

The High Court has set out guidance on the imposition of conditions by the Interim Orders Panel (IOP) of the Medical Practitioners Tribunals Service.

Mary O’Rourke QC (instructed by Nabarro LLP) for the claimant. Kate Gallafent (instructed by the General Medical Council) for the GMC.

The Interim Orders Panel (IOP) of the Medical Practitioners Tribunals Service was satisfied that the claimant had knowingly and dishonestly misled the mother of a patient, and had engaged in misconduct by performing sexually motivated and indecent acts with a patient, A.

As a result, the IOP considered that his name should be erased from the register. It ordered his suspension with immediate effect. The claimant successfully appealed and the matter was remitted to the defendant General Medical Council (GMC) to consider whether it was appropriate to

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